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05/08/2013

Health Care Industry Falls Behind Schedule in Preparing for Transition to ICD-10

AudioGeorge Arges of the American Hospital Association, Jim Daley of the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange, Kathy DeVault of the American Health Information Management Association and Jeanne Gilreath of the Healthcare Billing & Management Association spoke to iHealthBeat about the health care industry's lack of progress in transitioning to ICD-10 code sets.

03/13/2013

Health Information Technology Holds Promise for Encouraging Shared Decision-Making

AudioMark Friedberg of the RAND Corporation, Don Kemper, CEO of Healthwise, and Ming Tai-Seale and Edward Yu of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation spoke with iHealthBeat about how health IT can help facilitate shared decision-making.

02/20/2013

Health IT Experts Say Interoperability To Be Hot Topic at Annual HIMSS Conference

AudioBrian Edds of AmCom Software and Tom Leary and Joyce Sensmeier of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society spoke with iHealthBeat about what attendees can expect at the upcoming annual HIMSS conference.

11/14/2012

President Obama's Re-Election Means Continued Federal Support for Health IT, Experts Say

AudioErik Johnson of Avalere Health, Tom Leary of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and Chantal Worzala of the American Hospital Association spoke with iHealthBeat about what President Obama's re-election means for federal health IT efforts.

03/21/2012

Are Federal Training Programs Meeting the Growing Need for a New Health IT Workforce?

AudioTim Andrews of Booz Allen Hamilton, Helen Figge of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and Norma Morganti of the Midwest Community College Health IT Consortium spoke with iHealthBeat about federal efforts to bolster the health IT workforce.

01/12/2012

Stakeholders Respond to Federal Proposal To Give Patients Full Access to Their Lab Results

AudioKate Christensen of Kaiser Permanente, Jason DuBois of the American Clinical Laboratory Association, Lawrence Hughes of the American Hospital Association and Eva Powell of the National Partnership for Women & Families spoke with iHealthBeat about a new federal proposal to give patients full access to their laboratory results.

10/11/2011

Wendy Everett of NEHI Discusses How New Technologies Can Improve Care, Cut Costs

VideoWendy Everett, founding president of the New England Healthcare Institute, spoke with iHealthBeat about efforts to encourage health care providers to adopt innovative electronic health systems that could improve health care quality and reduce costs.

08/10/2011

Millions of Dollars in Federal Broadband Funds Fail To Reach Rural Health Care Providers

AudioJonathan Linkous, CEO of the American Telemedicine Association, Mark Goldstein of the Government Accountability Office, Carol Mattey of the Federal Communications Commission and Dale Alverson, director of the University of New Mexico's Center for Telehealth and Cybermedicine, spoke with iHealthBeat about FCC's efforts to distribute federal broadband funds to underserved areas.

06/08/2011

CMS Rule Takes Aim at Telehealth Barriers; Stakeholders Say More Still Needs To Be Done

AudioGary Capistrant of the American Telemedicine Association, Scott Cooper of CMS' Office of Clinical Standards and Quality, and Scott Simmons of the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine spoke with iHealthBeat about a new CMS rule that eases the process for the credentialing and privileging of telehealth practitioners.

02/24/2011

Regional Health IT Extension Centers Embrace Changes in Funding Structure, Time Frames

AudioSperanza Avram of the California Health Information Partnership and Services Organization, Mat Kendall of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and Christy Rosenberg of the Community Clinics Health Network spoke with iHealthBeat about new developments for regional extension centers.

02/09/2011

Annual HIMSS Conference Lights the Road to Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records

AudioCarla Smith of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, Lee Aase of the Mayo Clinic and Patricia Abbott of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing spoke with iHealthBeat about what attendees can expect at this year's HIMSS conference in Orlando, Fla.

01/12/2011

States Line Up for Grants Under ONC's Health Information Exchange Challenge Program

AudioClaudia Williams of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Jonah Frohlich, managing director of Manatt Health Solutions, Marc Overhage, CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange, and Micky Tripathi, CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, spoke with iHealthBeat about a new health information exchange grant program.

06/09/2010

Health IT Policy Committee Debates Role of FDA in Overseeing Safety of E-Health Record Systems

AudioPatient advocate Dave deBronkart, Deven McGraw of the Center for Democracy and Technology's Health Privacy Project and Paul Tang of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation discussed what kind of role FDA should play in overseeing the safety of EHR systems.

11/24/2009

High-Tech, Patient-Centered Medical Homes Eyed as Way To Curb Costs, Boost Care Quality

AudioAdam Bosworth, CEO of Keas, Wayne Gattinella, CEO of WebMD, and Diane Rittenhouse of the University of California-San Francisco Medical Center spoke with iHealthBeat about high-tech, patient-centered medical homes.

10/13/2009

Health 2.0 Conference Brings Industry Leaders Together To Promote Patient-Driven Health IT

AudioU.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra, Susannah Fox of the Pew Internet and American Life Project, WebMD's Wayne Gattinella, AAFP's David Kibbe and conference co-founder Indu Subaiya discussed the future of health 2.0 with iHealthBeat.

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